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U.S. reaffirms confidence in Peruvian mango production

14:10 Lima, Jan. 20. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service—APHIS, agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, started its annual review of the certification process it conducts to Mango croplands and packaging plants in Piura, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation—Minagri informed.

Certification is completed by the National Service for Agricultural Sanitation (Senasa).

APHIS mission is led by South America’s Regional Director Robert S. Johnson, who will hold technical meetings with Senasa between January 19 and 23.

U.S. experts will supervise activities in cultivated fields and packaging plants, in compliance with the Work Plan for the Peruvian Mangoes Treatment and Preclearance Program, signed by Senasa, APHIS, Minagri and Apem in 2010.

This type of supervision builds confidence of U.S. authorities and shows Peru is working diligently to keep export mangoes free of plagues. The United States currently imports 40,000 tons of this fruit.

While "Flavor" is very subjective, and each country that grows mangoes is very nationalistic, these are the mango varieties that are the most sought after around the world because of sweetnesss (Brix) and demand.The Chaunsa has a Brix rating in the 22 degree level which is unheard of!Carabao claims to be the sweetest mango in the world and was able to register this in the Guiness book of world records.Perhaps it is time for a GLOBAL taste test ???

Mangaluru: Vagaries of nature is expected to take a toll on the production of King of Fruits - Mango - in Karnataka this year. A combination of failure of pre-monsoon showers at the flowering and growth stage and spike in temperature in mango growing belt of the state is expected to limit the total production of mango to an estimated 12 lakh tonnes in the current season as against 14 lakh tonnes in the last calendar year.

However, the good news for fruit lovers is that this could see price of mangoes across varieties decrease marginally by 2-3%. This is mainly on account of 'import' of the fruit from other mango-growing states in India, said M Kamalakshi Rajanna, chairperson, Karnataka State Mango Development and Marketing Corporation Ltd.

Karnataka is the third largest mango-growing state in India after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Inaugurating a two-day Vasanthotsava organized by Shivarama Karantha Pilikula Nisargadhama and the Corporation at P…